Police search for suspect in store robbery

Amarillo police are searching for a man who robbed the CEFCO convenience store at Bell Street and Interstate 40 early Monday.

About 2:50 a.m., a man walked into the store, approached the male clerk from behind and put a hard object thought to be a pistol in the clerk’s back, police said.

The robber told the clerk to get money out of the cash register and lie down on the floor. An undisclosed amount of cash was handed over and the robber walked out of the store in an unknown direction, police said.

The robber was described as a skinny male, 6 feet to 6-feet-2 tall and wearing a long, parka-type coat with light-colored fur around the edges of the hood, police said. The suspect also had some sort of mask covering his face and was wearing what appeared to be socks on his hands, the clerk told police.

The weapon the robber used was covered by some sort of bag, police said.

No one was injured and the incident is under investigation, police said.